Events

Kerry Ann says, "At this stage in my life, it seems I am downsizing many things - or better said right-sizing -although chocolate, coffee and coloring my hair are not on this list! A few years ago I rolled up my sleeves and tackled what seemed to have become a mini-botanical garden in my yard. [...]

Hello, dear readers! I'll be speaking on Creating A Cabin Fever Bed this Wednesday, September 16th for the Manchester Garden Club at the Manchester Community Library at 1 pm. Would love to see you there! If winter starts too early and spring doesn't come soon enough, if you find yourself pacing indoors and gazing out [...]

This Monday, March 2, 2015, at 3pm, I'll be speaking with Carmen DeVito and Alice Marcus Krieg on the latest segment of their We Dig Plants! podcast. It will stream live at 3 pm or you can listen to it later at your convenience. Hope you'll lend me your ear and tell your friends, too! [...]

What's a cold climate gardener doing in Little Rock, Arkansas? Visiting with P. Allen Smith and a couple dozen garden bloggers, for his fourth annual Garden2Blog event. As usual when I visit a southern U.S. area, I felt like I was in an alien land. Here it was, the third week in May. Back home, [...]

For the past several days I've been visiting gardens in and around Quebec City in Canada as part of the Garden Writers Association annual symposium. According to this map, the warmest parts of Quebec are USDA Zone 3. I'm not sure I believe that, as many of the plants I've seen in gardens here are [...]

Franklin, NY, a gathering spot for passionate cold climate gardeners: who knew? Deborah Banks, a frequent commenter on CCG, knew. She is a member of the Franklin Garden Club, and one of the organizers of a series of garden lectures held over the course of this spring. She invited me to see her garden and [...]

Most people are surprised to hear I've never been to a flower and garden show. Well, to get to those shows, you have to travel and pay money, two things I never did much of before I became a blogger. And that's just to get in. Once you've paid your admission, you're not required to [...]

This Saturday, May 8, 2010, Hitch Lyman's garden will be open to the public from 10am to 4pm, as part of the Garden Conservancy's Open Days program. I'm planning on going, and I'll wear my special Cold Climate Gardening baseball cap. If you see me, introduce yourself so we can chat. The Open Days Directory [...]

For the third year in a row, garden bloggers from all over the country are gathering to meet face-to-face, this time in Buffalo, NY. Buffa10 officially begins Thursday night, July 8th and extends to Saturday, July 10th. Elizabeth Licata and Jim Charlier are the masterminds behind this garden lover's extravaganza. Check out the blog they've [...]